Cultivator



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Patented Feb, 3, 1880.

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N4 PETERS, FHOW-LITHOGRAPHM, WASHINGTON. D, C.

i' UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE- EUGENE sLossfoNAaD EDWIN o. sLossoN, orVERONA, ILLINoIs.

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SPECIFICATION for-ming part of Letters Patent No. 224,11-1, datedFebruary 3, 1880.

Application med Apn'iic, 1879. y

T o all whom fit may concern i Be it known that we, EUGENE SLossoN andvEDWIN G. SLossoN, of Verona, in the county of. Grundy and State ofIllinois, have invented,

a new and useful Improvement in Oultivators, which is fully described inthe following specification, referencebein g hadA to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l represents a plan view of a cultivatorembodying our improvements; Fig. 2, al

' stituted for the ordinary plows of a riding or walking corn-plow, thedraft-beams being made detachable andexchangeable, and vin` which theteeth are so arranged as to ll the Y furrow usually left next to the rowof corn.

The invention consists in the special ar'- rangement of the teethcarried by each of the draft-beams.

It also consists in special devices for bracing i the tooth-supports andattaching the draftbeams to the wheel-frame, all V of which will behereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out more definitely in theclaims. Y

In the drawings, A represents the ordinary draft-frame of a wheeloorn-plow, which ma'y be of any well-.known construction, aud issupported on wheels B. From thisframe, in front of the axle, dependsupports C, arranged on opposite sides of the frame, and which furnishthe means of f attachment for the draftlbeams. The draft-beams D areattached to these supports by means of pivoted posts E, which are linboth directions. f

The joint betweenthe draft-beams and the posts is constructed so thatthe beams may be readily disconnected for the purpose of detach ing thecultivator, when the same wheel-frame drawings.

may be employed for the attachment of lordinary corn-plows, thedraft-beams of which are constructed to be connected to the pivotedposts in the same way as the cultivator draftbeams. y

A tooth-bar, F, is attached to each of the draft-beams on the outside ofthe latter, being connected at its rear end to the rear portion 'of thedraft-bea1n,'and diverging therefrom as it projects forward, as shown inFig. 3 of the A bracket, G, attached4 to the outside of the draft-beams,serves to support these tooth-bars centrally, and at their front endsarebraces H, extending upward and inward to the pivot-posts E, or someother suitable support, the connections between the bracerods and theother partis being pivoted, so as to permit thejvibration of thedraft-beams. These bars F carry each two cultivator-teeth, I, arrangedone in rear of the other on the inclined bar, as shown in the drawings.

A short tooth-bar, J, is attached to the rear end of each of thedraft-beams, being arranged diagonally to the latter, so as to projecton each side of the draft-beam, the front end of each being inside ofthe said beam, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings. These bars carry eachtwo cultiVator-teeth,lK, arranged near the respective ends of the bars,so that one will be inside ofthe vdraft-.beam and the other outsidethereof, as shown in Fig. l. It will thus be seen that each of thedraft-beams is provided with four cultivator-teeth, or, in other words,the cultivator belongs to that class known as eight-toothed cultivators.This style of cultivator is desirable for the reason v that with it theground is all worked between the rows of corn; but under'the usualarrangement of the teeth in this andother cultivators an objection isfound to their work in the furrow vmade by the rear tooth next totherows of standing corn, which is always left open, the teeth beingarranged on the same inclined bar `or on the `same diagonal line, oneafter the other. Under our improved arrangement of IOO rangement of theremaining teeth is such that the entire space between the rows isworked. The draft-beams are provided with handles L, and with suspendinglinks or'chains M, so 5 that the cut of the teeth may be regulated andadapted to the size of the corn, and each set of teeth may be handledwith ease.

The implement may be adapted to either a riding' or walking cultiva-tor,and as each draft- Io beam is entirely independent of the other, eachside of the cultivator maybe handled independently of the other.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let- 15 ters Patent, is-

1. The draft-beams, in combination with the

